Middle East

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.” The new area east of the Jordan river was an Arab nation and called Trans-Jordan, meaning across the Jordan river, which today is known as Jordan. The land that lies west of the Jordan River remains Palestine, “which will soon be called Israel and imaginary Jewish land that is made reality(Bard 22).” The Arabs that live in the new Trans-Jordan wanted to take over the remaining part of Palestine. Trained by the British the Arabs invaded Palestine and tried to over-throw the Jews. It was obvious now to the Jews that they must fight the Arabs and keep out the British(United). After the Jews formed an army and began fighting the British stopped backing the Arabs and the issue was left up to the UN. The UN created the Partition Plan also know as Resolution 181. In this plan 25 percent of the Palestine Jewish state was offered to the Jews and the rest was going to be an Arab state. The Jews accepted this offer but the Arabs turned it down because they wanted it all(United). Since there wasn’t a settlement here there would be another war. This time when the Arabs attacked the other Arab countries, Egypt, Syria, and Jordan joined in on the attack. This battle broke out in 1967 and was know as the Six Day War because it only lasted six days. This war backfired on the Arab nations at the end of the war the Jewish Palestine state, now called Israel, was victorious and took over the Gaza Strip, West Bank, and The Sinai Peninsula. The Gaza Strip and West Bank are Arab states and the Sinai Peninsula was part of Egypt.
Unfortunately, Israel was now an “occupier” of 850,000 Palestinian Arabs from
both West Bank and the Gaza Strip. These Arabs would refer to themselves as
refugees from the previous war of 1967. . . , Israel is responsible for bringing about
some of their own problems. The Arabs were packed and ready to leave when Israel
persuaded them to stay (United).
The United States finally get involved ...